Mrs W

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Voter in beautiful Colorado-3. Lauren Boebert is my rep. Pray for us

I’m still up

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we're eager for your questions! Grace Howard, a researcher who wrote a new book called The Pregnancy Police, has agreed to answer questions from Bolts readers on all this—so please do submit... or just drop them below!

We want to hear from you: What do you want to know about how pregnancy is being surveilled and criminalized in states—and about the new legal realities since Dobbs? Chime in here, and we’ll try to answer! boltsmag.org/ask-bolts/

Ask Bolts: How Is Pregnancy Policedboltsmag.org Send us your questions on how pregnancy is surveilled and criminalized.

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Over on Twitter, the s*x bots that appear every time you tweet or like something disappeared ENTIRELY on the day a 20 y.o. tried to shoot Trump, six days ago. Now, the day after the RNC, I've just seen one again. Amber.

Today was the stupidest fucking day in media coverage. I explain: www.findinggravity.net/p/horny-for-...

Horny for fascismwww.findinggravity.net You ever have one of those days where nothing surprises you but the sheer volume of things not surprising you is kind of overwhelming? Here’s Politico reporter Natalie Allison with an extremely unsurp...

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Clockwise from top left: 1) Stars in horror films featuring child rape 2) Pal of Jan 6 Proud Boy 3) (correctly!) said Trump should apologize to Central Park 5 4) Anti-vax activist

Republican delegates planned their outfits for each night of the Republican National Convention months in advance. It is a moment to express their patriotism, their creativity and their unshakable loyalty to Donald Trump. Here are portraits from the RNC: wapo.st/4fcQnJ1

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I am rn strolling thru the floors of the Trump adulating Hulk Hogan featuring Republican National Convention w/ ear buds in, blasting this song and boy I wish I knew how to describe just how surreal an experience this is that also I hope I never get to fucking do again ever youtu.be/KCGlwx3L-Xk?...

Elvis Costello - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understandingyoutu.be The Very Best of Elvis Costello

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CrowdStrike xkcd.com/2961

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I wrote this five years ago and I really want it to stop being relevant www.liberalcurrents.com/stop-legitim...

The populist, working man ticket will be led by a Manhattan real estate mogul who owns a bunch of exclusive country clubs, and a Yale grad, ex-venture capitalist whose rise was funded by Bay Area billionaires.

Stop Legitimizing the Far Right’s Narratives with the Label ‘Populism’www.liberalcurrents.com Since 2016, to hear the media tell it, the world’s democracies have been faced with a deluge of ‘populism’. The word seems most commonly applied to President Donald Trump, but electoral surprises in l...

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My unity speech goes to another school, in Canada. I'm sure you'll meet her someday.

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Meanwhile over at the Republican convention

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JD Vance is on the ticket because he wants the government to kill trans people. Vance has been more vocal in his transphobia than just about any other leading VP candidate. That's a deliberate choice by Team Trump.

J.D. Vance's horrendous record of homophobia and transphobiawww.advocate.com Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick hasn't been a senator long — but he's been in the public eye long enough to accrue a strongly anti-LGBTQ+ record.

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Part of this is that it’s much easier to write a story about “Biden old” than it is to write about policy or risk your peace by writing about fascism.

the vast majority of these critics weren't mad because outlets criticized Biden age, they're mad because the number of "Biden is old" stories out-ratio'd stories about real policy or the looming threat of fascism by like a factor of like forty to one

Big media outlets are questioning Biden’s fitness. Some of their audience is furious.www.semafor.com Liberal-leaning outlets that riveted Democratic audiences through the Trump years are facing a backlash.

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So did the NYT and WaPo hammer Trump for not calling the widow of the guy who took a bullet meant for Trump? Or nah.

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🚨 TEXAS Republicans are preventing abortions for women w/life-threatening, nonviable pregnancies...and now they're allowed let pregnant women die in the lobby. Donate to Texas Dems today. #Blue24 secure.actblue.com/donate/txblu...

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“He blocked a bunch of anonymous strangers who demanded he quit his job. HE STARTED IT!” Sweet Jesus

This is the heart of it: the pathologically entitled belief that they can treat you any way they want and it’s aggression for you to block them. Batterer’s logic.

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Some of these Republicans who are (naturally enough) agreeing with Democrats tonight that violence has no place in our politics will be in an awkward spot when Trump once again insists that it does.

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Georgia representative Mike Collins:

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Explainer: There's exactly one standard in America. If Dems call out Trump for his fascism, it's incitement. If Republicans demand violence, it's free speech.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement recovered AR-style rifle at scene of Trump rally shooting, AP source says.

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I’ll say one other thing; I don’t care how many hours have passed since the assassination attempt, there are just some people I’m not willing to take lessons on violent or irresponsible rhetoric from, or hear them out in good faith ever on this issue. Get fucked, fuck off, next.

apnews.com/article/jan-...

Trump posted what he said was Obama's address, prosecutors say. An armed man was soon arrested thereapnews.com Federal prosecutors say former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama the same day a man with guns in his van ...

Thank you. Exactly. These people made this country into a far more politically violent place. I don’t want to hear shit from them.

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I have been working on a story about carbon capture for like three months because I keep thinking "it cannot possibly be THIS much of an absolute shit show" and figuring I must be missing something or misunderstanding something and then every new expert I talk to tells me it's even worse

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If any city should have a world-class LGBTQ museum, it's San Francisco. And it looks like we're on our way to having one. SF supervisors accept grant funds for LGBTQ museum www.ebar.com/story.php?ch...

SF supervisors accept grant funds for LGBTQ museumwww.ebar.com Now that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has accepted a $5.5 million grant from the state for an LGBTQ history museum, it needs to find a site.

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i'll say it. this has the same energy as custom crocs

my eye is twitching @niedermeyer.io

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This is starting to remind me January 6 when I thought "wait, we don't have secret ninjas and snipers protecting the Capitol at all times?" But now it's like "the top political editors and top political consultants don't know at all what they're doing?" It's all been so sloppy all around.

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It was a common euphemism for Jews who marched with MLK and others

The official 2024 GOP platform makes a reference to "Christian-hating Communists" who the Republicans will keep from entering the country. Back in the early days of the America First movement, "Christian-hating Communists" would have just been a longer way of saying "Jews."

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I paid a visit to the Russian ambassador’s residence this evening:

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So the more I see of this, the more I respect it. The Cybertruck is so unrelentingly and singularly absurd that the only sane aesthetic response is to heap yet more absurdity on top. This exudes a level of "you're locked in here with me" energy that you don't often get the opportunity to witness.

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Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.